This week the graceful and creative Madeline Brock will DJ a delightful evening of dancing, assisted by our own AIFD president Iola Hallock.

Teaching

Join us at 7:30 p.m. when we lead off our evening with some great teaching by Holly Plotner. Holly will walk through some Greek dances, including a simple Pontic dance Tiz Omal, and review Russian circle dance Devichya Khorovodnaya (a graceful dance sure to be featured at Texas Camp).

Texas Camp Dance floor: An important part of Texas Camp is setting up TIFD's world reknowned dance floor the weekend before. Whether you are registered for camp or not, helping to set up the floor is a great source of exercise and fresh air. Click here for more details and information.

Come celebrate Chuck Roth's 80th Birthday Party with a FREE night of folk and contra dancing on Saturday, December 1st at HRC. Kaye and Chuck will provide cake, fruit and beverages. No presents, but please bring other snacks to share.

Live music for the contra dances and many of the folk dances will be provided by The Home Grown Contra Band and other musicians.

Austin's own Annoying Instruments Orchestra (AIO) will play carnival music (and possibly wear carnival outfits) at IKEA in Round Rock this Friday, November. 16th from 5 to 7:30pm as part of IKEA's "Soft Toy Cirkus". This free event will take place in the Self-Serv Warehouse. A soft toy donation is suggested. For more information, check out IKEA's website.

AIFD would like to thank Misi Tsurikov for coordinating the Lee Elementary Geography Day performance on November 9th. Thanks also to the dancers who participated thus making the show a success. Dancers included: Joy Diamond, Franklin Houston, Iola Hallock, Holly Plotner, Judit Györgyey Ries and Misi Tsurikov. Below is Misi's write up about this fruitful event.

Dear friends,

I'd like to thank all of you for participating in the AIFD mini-show of Greek dances at Lee Elementary. It was obvious that the kids were engaged and interested in everything we did, and that they found it beautiful. The excitement in the room was palpable. And there's no greater reward for a dance teacher than seeing the students try out the dances on their own, without prompting or mandate. As you no doubt saw, that happened after our audience-participation number -- a small group of kids gathered in a circle and tried to dance Tsamiko on their own.

We did many great things through that show. I found the entire experience tremendously rewarding, and I hope you did too.